If you've ever wanted to roleplay psychologically challenged teenagers piloting giant biological robots providing the last defense line of earth, you've come to the right place!

I'm going to be running Adeptus Evangelion, a homebrewed plugin for Dark Heresy. You'll need the DH core, but it has absolutely nothing to do with Warhammer 40K other than the game system base.

You do not need any knowledge of Evangelion. In fact, your experience may be enhanced by not having watched it. All plot info is included in the AE plug-in in the PDF titled "Welcome to Nerv!" (Veterans may want to read over it quickly, too.)

However, not all information is 100% reliable, and the world we will be playing in is NOT a perfect match to the one depicted in the material. It's close enough for now, though. Just don't depend on Angel attacks occurring the way you expect.

I will be recruiting up to 4 pilots and one Operations Director per branch, but other pilots may make guest appearances. (NERV has more than one branch, after all.)

The Operations Director deserves special mention. He/She will NOT get to fight directly most of the time, but instead will be at HQ. The Operations Director is in charge of deciding where the turrets and special buildings go, how to spend NERV's funding, what branches of research to take, etc. It's not a huge amount of work or anything, but even though you fight indirectly, you get a great degree of control. I do of course expect the Operations Director to listen to the advice of the fellow players, though not necessarily listening to the pilots. The Operations Director's final role is the deployment and control of military forces in combat, including tactical control of the Evangelions. Whether the pilots obey his/her advice is another matter.

AE plug-in: (I apologize for it being picked apart, but I needed to delete a few chapters full of game mechanic tricks and plothooks I'll probably use. Everything you need to know is in there.)http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XDZUS5O8

Adeptus Evangelion uses the following chapters of the Dark Heresy core book:

There will absolutely be a PC Base in Tokyo-3. This is, more than anything else, to drive home the fact that you are there, and the cast of Evangelion is not.

I have, however, toyed with the idea of opening a second NERV branch. This will open the possible player positions from 4 to 6-8, if enough interest is shown, and if the players are willing to MAKE room in their schedules where need be.

I have not yet decided where the other branch will be, but here are some likely candidates:

Evangelion Unit 01 was sent to NERV HQ. No one knew who created it, or how, but it appeared to be fully functional, and a functioning Evangelion is not a gift one rejects. Dozens of tests were performed, and Unit 01 rejected every test pilot, until the decision was reached that a unique pilot was needed, one who would be capable of synchronising with the intractable Unit 01. No such pilot had been found, however, so one needed to be made. Over months and then years of rigorous testing, NERV scientists carefully analysed the brain patterns and DNA of the Evangelion and carefully crafted a human who would be capable of piloting it, until finally Sayuri Michishio was born into the world not from a human woman, but from a cloning tube, fully grown as a 10 year old girl.

It quickly became obvious that Sayuri was not like other girls her own age, physically frail even for a child, and psychologically weak, always bowing to the slightest pressure, following every command given to her. Because of this she became withdrawn and quiet, not unfriendly, but shy and nervous around others. Most of NERV's staff have found her almost complete lack of self-determination to be unnerving, but she has proven to be fiercely loyal to NERV, and more than willing to fight and even sacrifice herself if she's commanded to.

For a short while she stayed with foster parents who worked for NERV, but after they transfered to another NERV branch, she moved into a small apartment where she's been living alone since, closely monitored by NERV personnel.

Miyo's first memories placed her in the care of Mio Sakamoto of the JSSDF and her husband Alto Takamachii. She had a normal childhood, and apart from going to a military school instead of a public one, her life was uneventfull. She's allways been used to following orders, due to her father and mother both being really strict in her upbringing, and their militaritic lifestyle,due to both working for the JSSDF.She remembers nothing but the things drilled into them from her school, not the children, only the guns, uniforms, and strict rules they had to abide by.She's allways been fond of reading and has a large collection of books.

When she was about 13 years old, a NERV team summoned every child in the various small towns and the military base to a mandatory test, one to test for their synchro rates.Miyo had such a exceptionally high score, the result of that being,that her parents were contacted.Her scores we're not high enough for her to become an EVA pilot, but apparently,someone had decided differently.

Another year later, she had another sync test, and this time, her scores we're apparently high enough, as she,after various papers had been signed, got transferred over to NERV China, where she got to train to use EVA-02, a EVA apparently made by a mysterious benefactor.The EVA unit 02, which she will be piloting was shipped ahead, and she and some guy named Katou, who looks to be in his 30's are currently en route to NERV-00

Victoria Sabatier was born the same year 2nd impact occurred, being the first and only child of her parents who were killed a few months after during the ecological and political shock resulting from 2nd impact. She was collected by a group of survivors who dropped her off at an orphanage where she was then allowed to stay. Unfortunately due to the chaos in the government at the time, there was no real regulation of the place so children were forced to do labor and were abused if they didn't meet the staff's standards. Victoria in particular was called "useless" one too many times as well as beaten. It sunk in, turning her into somewhat of a perfectionist with her work, if only to avoid the emotional abuse.

Eventually the government cracked down on the facility, removing the children and charging the staff for their abuses. The children were quickly distributed to foster homes and also adopted if they were lucky. Victoria however wasn't one of the lucky ones. She was bounced between various foster homes till NERV did a local sync test on the children of the town she was in at the time, finding she showed a positive aptitude for synchronizing. She was soon collected by NERV and sent to NERV Boston for initiation, her foster parents somewhat sad to see her go but not completely attached to her. By the age of 9 she was sent to NERV 2nd branch Nevada for training.

During her 5 years of training she continued to show her prior developed perfectionist streak and did decently at her tasks and tests, though if she didn't do as well as she set out to do she would beat herself up emotionally inside, this giving another hit to her personal morale. She still has a few physical scars on her back and chest from the beatings she received earlier in her life, while they are small they run deep and still pain her in times of duress.

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There are two additional bases in Germany, a base in Norway, a base in Australia, USA First Branch, and there was a small base in Europe, but it was closed down. You are not cleared for any of their functions at the current time. Any other NERV Bases that may or may not exist are not known to exist at the Operation Director's current clearance level.

All bases have benefits, some of them larger than others, some of them have drawbacks. You do not get to know any of the benefits or drawbacks ahead of time.

There are two additional bases in Germany, a base in Norway, a base in Australia, USA First Branch, and there was a small base in Europe, but it was closed down. You are not cleared for any of their functions at the current time. Any other NERV Bases that may or may not exist are not known to exist at the Operation Director's current clearance level.

All bases have benefits, some of them larger than others, some of them have drawbacks. You do not get to know any of the benefits or drawbacks ahead of time.

I'm torn between 3, India, Africa, and amazon. Africa in particular interests me because it's observing Antarctica, or what's left of it anyway.

NERV Africa peaks my interest due to its proximity and role with regards due the shit that went up in Antarctica. I suppose everything there is to know about canon Eva can be found floating elsewhere, so I doubt we can get any further exposition about the messed up world that AE takes place.

Unless you're willing to let us know that you're planning some specific plot and lore twists unique to this setting, I'd default to DA DA DA!

_________________Realism, seriously? It's a space ship game. Realism was thrown out the window a long time ago.

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